A Secondary Education graduate of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Valenzuela landed fourth in the licensure examination for teachers this year.
“Live the moment,” was Nicko Tumala’s mindset. A Mathematics major who graduated from PLV in 2016, he got an impressive rating of 91.6 percent in the LET.
Tumala said he chose to be a teacher after he played “student-teacher” during his high school days. “From then on, I enjoyed imparting knowledge to other people and dreamt of seeing myself as a teacher,” he said.
He was raised in the city’s Barangay Gen. T. de Leon by a simple yet supportive family. His father is a construction worker and his mother works at a factory.
Currently, Tumala is teaching Mathematics to senior high school students at PLV. He is planning to take up a masteral degree “to be a more worthy servant of education.”
He said a person should be “very much willing to teach” and to share his skills to become an effective educator. “Being a teacher is a big responsibility. It is not just a profession, but it shall be considered as a vocation,” Tumala added.
